Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-26
Application for . Patent.
Notice No. Ia.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise City, Idaho, June 81, 1887.

Boise City, Idaho, June 81, 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the Elmira
Silver Mining Company, by John Brown,
lis President and General Manager, whose
post Office address Is Banner, Boise coun.
ty, Idaho Territory, has made application
for United States patent for the Banner
lode mining claim and mill site, situated
In Banner Mining District, Boise County,
Idaho Territory, consisting of fifteen hun
dred $500 linear feet of the lode and sur
face ground six hundred 5000 feet wide,
being Lot No. 81 A and acres of non.
mineral land not contiguous to said lode,
for mill site, being Lot No. 81 b, and
described in the field notes and plat of the
official survey on file In this office, with
magnetic variation at 10 degrees and 80
minutes East, as follows, in effect substan-
TALLY and correctly:
SAID mining claim commencing at the
stake or post on which is posted the no
tice of relocation, at a point 100 feet in
westerly direction from the shaft sunk on
said lode, known as the old Banner shaft
or discovery shaft, and running thence in
an easterly direction 1900 feet to similar
stake OF post on the line of said lode,
marked EAST Center Stake" together
with 600 feet In width the entire length of
said claim, being 300 feet in width on each
side from the center or middle of said
lode at the surface. Said surface ground
being marked and described as follows. In
effect: Commencing at point $3.50 feet
from United States mineral monument
No. /, in direction north 81 degrees, O6
minutes east therefrom, the property be-
Ing on unsurveyed land--being cor. No.
l, running thence south IA degrees, Oh
minutes east 800 feet to post marked
rs. w." being cor. No. 2, and passing
through, at a distance of 800 feet from the
original starting point, the west end cen.
ter post or stake on which is posted the
original notice of relocation by the Ell.
mira Silver Mining Company, thence
north II degrees 90 minutes east, 1900 feet
to post marked IS. E." being cor. No.
Q, thence north IA degrees, 04 minutes
west, across the east end center post or
stake 900 feet to post marked IN. E."
being cor. No. 4, thence south II degrees
~ minutes west 1900 feet to post mark.
ed IN. W." which is the place of begin
ming, containing an area of 20 $1,000
acres. This location also covers and in.
cludes what is known as the Big Crop.
pings, and said mine or Banner lode be.
Ing situated about thirty miles In a north.
easterly direction from Idaho CITY, and
about one mile In a northeasterly direc.
ton from the steam quartz mill owned by
the Elmira Silver Mining Company. AL.
so the MILL SITE on which stands the
Banner mill, and known as the Banner
mill site, located in triangular shape,
Immediately above what was formerly
called Wolverine Gulch, and Smiths
FORK, and between them, described AS fol.
lows; Beginning at a point $3.50 feet
nom United States mineral monument
NO. l, in direction therefrom south 10
deg. III minutes east thence running south
~ degrees, 10 minutes east, 574.5 feet to a
post, cor. No. 4, thence north 80 degrees
w minutes west 700 feet to post at the
junction of the right fork of Bear creek
with The main creek, cor. No. l, running
thence north % degrees 50 minutes east
440 feet TO post, cor. No. 2, thence north
W degrees east 275.5 feet to post, cor. No
y, which is the place OF beginning; en-.
bracing an area of five acres. The north
line Of said mill site being 3,95O,7 feet dis.
tant nom the northwest corner. or cor
No. Of said Lot No. 81 A, the Banner
lode surface ground, in a direction sonth
% degrees ID minutes 80 seconds west
therefrom; all corners of claim be;ng al
so marked US. l.. 81 A, and all corners
OF mill site marked U. s. L. 81 b. In addi,
ton TO No. of corner.
The said mining claim and mill site be-
ing OF record in the office of the Conn,x
Recorder of said mining district at Idaho
City, in Boise County, Idaho Territory
Inc nearest known location being the Sfl.
yer Chief lode or claim, which Joins the
SAID Banner lode and claim on the west
ANY aud all persons claiming adversely
any portion of the said Banner lode min.
ing claim or surface ground, or the mill
site Aforesaid, are required to file their nd. |
verse claims thereto with the Register of
me United States Land Office, at Boise
City, Idaho Territory, within the siytv
Gays publication hereof, or they will he
oarreu oy virtue Of the provisions of the